SYNOPSIS: When the corpse of Sir Charles Baskerville is found on the grounds of his Dartmoor estate next to a mysterious animal footprint, thoughts turn to a fabled family curse: that of a hellhound set out to avenge a crime committed by one of Sir Charles's ancestors. As the only surviving heir of the Baskervilles is terrified for his safety, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are called in to investigate.

The most famous novel in Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes cycle, The Hound of the Baskervilles is a masterpiece of terror, suspense and mystery which has enthralled readers young and old since it was first published in 1902.

So the rainy November is over! It was incredibly worm down here in Germany, up to 16 degrees during day and only last week got bellow 10. And you know what? We had snow one night, my bf and I were driving back from the gym and it was just so awesome! Snow snow snow!

SYNOPSIS: In this stunning bridge book between Cress and Winter in the bestselling Lunar Chronicles, Queen Levana’s story is finally told.

Mirror, mirror on the wall,Who is the fairest of them all?

Fans
of the Lunar Chronicles know Queen Levana as a ruler who uses her
“glamour” to gain power. But long before she crossed paths with Cinder,
Scarlet, and Cress, Levana lived a very different story – a story that
has never been told . . . until now.

Marissa Meyer spins yet
another unforgettable tale about love and war, deceit and death. This
extraordinary book includes full-color art and an excerpt from Winter, the next book in the Lunar Chronicles series.

SYNOPSIS:Riders. A new fantasy adventure from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Veronica Rossi.

For eighteen-year-old Gideon Blake, nothing but death can keep him from achieving his goal of becoming a U.S. Army Ranger. As it turns out, it does.

Recovering from the accident that most definitely killed him, Gideon finds himself with strange new powers and a bizarre cuff he can't remove. His death has brought to life his real destiny. He has become War, one of the legendary four horsemen of the apocalypse.

Over the coming weeks, he and the other horsemen--Conquest, Famine, and Death--are brought together by a beautiful but frustratingly secretive girl to help save humanity from an ancient evil on the emergence.

They fail.

Now--bound, bloodied, and drugged--Gideon is interrogated by the authorities about his role in a battle that has become an international incident. If he stands any chance of saving his friends and the girl he's fallen for--not to mention all of humankind--he needs to convince the skeptical government officials the world is in imminent danger.

SYNOPSIS:Humanity is all but
extinguished after a war with Partials—engineered organic beings
identical to humans—has decimated the population. Reduced to only tens
of thousands by a weaponized virus to which only a fraction of humanity
is immune, the survivors in North America have huddled together on Long
Island. But sixteen-year-old Kira is determined to find a solution. As
she tries desperately to save what is left of her race, she discovers
that that the survival of both humans and Partials rests in her attempts
to answer questions about the war's origin that she never knew to ask.

Playing on our curiosity of and fascination with the complete collapse of civilization, Partials
is, at its heart, a story of survival, one that explores the individual
narratives and complex relationships of those left behind, both humans
and Partials alike—and of the way in which the concept of what is right
and wrong in this world is greatly dependent on one's own point of view.

SYNOPSIS:In this third book in
the Lunar Chronicles, Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives on the
run, now with Scarlet and Wolf in tow. Together, they’re plotting to
overthrow Queen Levana and her army.

Their best hope lies with
Cress, a girl imprisoned on a satellite since childhood who's only ever
had her netscreens as company. All that screen time has made Cress an
excellent hacker. Unfortunately, she’s just received orders from Levana
to track down Cinder and her handsome accomplice.

When a daring
rescue of Cress goes awry, the group is separated. Cress finally has her
freedom, but it comes at a high price. Meanwhile, Queen Levana will let
nothing prevent her marriage to Emperor Kai. Cress, Scarlet, and Cinder
may not have signed up to save the world, but they may be the only hope
the world has.

SYNOPSIS: One for the gods of our people Two for the plants they seeded into the earth
Three for the animals they gave gifts of magic
Four for the men who serve the gods
Five for the spirit that sustains everything

Five numbers. Five gods. Five spells for men and five for women. Five ages before the end.

Since history began, this knowledge has defined the world for Alaji’s people, who live along the shores of five holy lakes. But now an army has ridden out of the north led by a powerful and cunning warlord. This, Alaji is told, could mark the end of the last age. The end of men and of time itself.

Alaji has more to fear than invaders. She has learned the five spells of women. But she knows one more: a spell beyond those given to mortals. A spell that that gives her power over time.

To learn a spell of the gods is to challenge them. If discovered, the penalty is death. But harnessing such power may allow Alaji to save her family, or may start her on a journey ranging farther than they could have ever imagined.

A Count of Five is the first novel in a new series, The Citadel of the Last Gathering, exploring a fantasy world on a massive scale.

SYNOPSIS: It's been months since the ghost of Anna Korlov opened a door to Hell in her basement and disappeared into it, but ghost-hunter Cas Lowood can't move on.

His friends remind him that Anna sacrificed herself so that Cas could live—not walk around half dead. He knows they're right, but in Cas's eyes, no living girl he meets can compare to the dead girl he fell in love with.

Now he's seeing Anna everywhere: sometimes when he's asleep and sometimes in waking nightmares. But something is very wrong...these aren't just daydreams. Anna seems tortured, torn apart in new and ever more gruesome ways every time she appears.

Cas doesn't know what happened to Anna when she disappeared into Hell, but he knows she doesn't deserve whatever is happening to her now. Anna saved Cas more than once, and it's time for him to return the favor.

SYNOPSIS: Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead.

So did his father before him, until he was gruesomely murdered by a ghost he sought to kill. Now, armed with his father's mysterious and deadly athame, Cas travels the country with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat. They follow legends and local lore, destroy the murderous dead, and keep pesky things like the future and friends at bay.

Searching for a ghost the locals call Anna Dressed in Blood, Cas expects the usual: track, hunt, kill. What he finds instead is a girl entangled in curses and rage, a ghost like he's never faced before. She still wears the dress she wore on the day of her brutal murder in 1958: once white, now stained red and dripping with blood. Since her death, Anna has killed any and every person who has dared to step into the deserted Victorian she used to call home.

SYNOPSIS:On a continent ruled by three empires, some are born with a “witchery”, a magical skill that sets them apart from others.

In
the Witchlands, there are almost as many types of magic as there are
ways to get in trouble—as two desperate young women know all too well.

Safiya
is a Truthwitch, able to discern truth from lie. It’s a powerful magic
that many would kill to have on their side, especially amongst the
nobility to which Safi was born. So Safi must keep her gift hidden, lest
she be used as a pawn in the struggle between empires.

Iseult, a
Threadwitch, can see the invisible ties that bind and entangle the
lives around her—but she cannot see the bonds that touch her own heart.
Her unlikely friendship with Safi has taken her from life as an outcast
into one of reckless adventure, where she is a cool, wary balance to
Safi’s hotheaded impulsiveness.

Safi and Iseult just want to be
free to live their own lives, but war is coming to the Witchlands. With
the help of the cunning Prince Merik (a Windwitch and ship’s captain)
and the hindrance of a Bloodwitch bent on revenge, the friends must
fight emperors, princes, and mercenaries alike, who will stop at nothing
to get their hands on a Truthwitch.

18 November, 2015

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Breaking the Spine. Today we are waiting for A Gathering of Shadows by V. E. Schwab!

This is the sequel of A Darker Shade of Magic which I haven't read yet but it's on my to-be-read list for January. I have read very good reviews of the first book so this is a much anticipated book! Right now you can request a preview excerpt on NetGalley or directly contact the publisher for an ARC.

SYNOPSIS: Lina is just like any other fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl in 1941. She paints, she draws, she gets crushes on boys. Until one night when Soviet officers barge into her home, tearing her family from the comfortable life they've known. Separated from her father, forced onto a crowded and dirty train car, Lina, her mother, and her young brother slowly make their way north, crossing the Arctic Circle, to a work camp in the coldest reaches of Siberia. Here they are forced, under Stalin's orders, to dig for beets and fight for their lives under the cruelest of conditions.
Lina finds solace in her art, meticulously--and at great risk--documenting events by drawing, hoping these messages will make their way to her father's prison camp to let him know they are still alive. It is a long and harrowing journey, spanning years and covering 6,500 miles, but it is through incredible strength, love, and hope that Lina ultimately survives.Between Shades of Gray is a novel that will steal your breath and capture your heart.

SYNOPSIS:A canny young woman is
struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless
fraud. On a rainy April morning, she is reading auras at Spiritual Palms
when Susan Burke walks in. A keen observer of human behavior, our
unnamed narrator immediately diagnoses beautiful, rich Susan as an
unhappy woman eager to give her lovely life a drama injection. However,
when the "psychic" visits the eerie Victorian home that has been the
source of Susan's terror and grief, she realizes she may not have to
pretend to believe in ghosts anymore. Miles, Susan's teenage stepson,
doesn't help matters with his disturbing manner and grisly imagination.
The three are soon locked in a chilling battle to discover where the
evil truly lurks and what, if anything, can be done to escape it.

When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton's type is girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact. On a road trip miles from home, this anagram-happy, washed-up child prodigy has ten thousand dollars in his pocket, a bloodthirsty feral hog on his trail, and an overweight, Judge Judy-loving best friend riding shotgun - but no Katherines. Colin is on a mission to prove The Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability, which he hopes will predict the future of any relationship, avenge Dumpees everywhere, and finally win him the girl.

Sure,
the life of a graduate student wasn’t exactly glamorous, but I was
doing fine until Chicago’s vampires announced their existence to the
world. When a rogue vampire attacked me, I was lucky he only got a sip.
Another bloodsucker scared him off and decided the best way to save my
life was to make me the walking undead.

Now I’ve traded sweating
over my thesis for learning to fit in at a Hyde Park mansion full of
vamps loyal to Ethan “Lord o’ the Manor” Sullivan. Of course, as a tall,
green-eyed,four-hundred-year-old vampire, he has centuries’ worth of charm, but unfortunately he expects my gratitude—and servitude. Right…

But someone’s out to get me. Is it the rogue vampire who bit me? A vamp from a rival House? An angry mob bearing torches?

My initiation into Chicago’s nightlife may be the first skirmish in a war—and there will be blood.

SYNOPSIS:Danger and betrayal,
love and loss, secrets and enchantment are woven together in the
breathtaking finale to the #1 New York Times bestselling Infernal
Devices Trilogy, prequel to the internationally bestselling Mortal
Instruments series.

THE INFERNAL DEVICES WILL NEVER STOP COMING

A
net of shadows begins to tighten around the Shadowhunters of the London
Institute. Mortmain plans to use his Infernal Devices, an army of
pitiless automatons, to destroy the Shadowhunters. He needs only one
last item to complete his plan: he needs Tessa Gray.

Charlotte
Branwell, head of the London Institute, is desperate to find Mortmain
before he strikes. But when Mortmain abducts Tessa, the boys who lay
equal claim to her heart, Jem and Will, will do anything to save her.
For though Tessa and Jem are now engaged, Will is as much in love with
her as ever.

As those who love Tessa rally to rescue her from
Mortmain’s clutches, Tessa realizes that the only person who can save
her is herself. But can a single girl, even one who can command the
power of angels, face down an entire army?

Danger and betrayal,
secrets and enchantment, and the tangled threads of love and loss
intertwine as the Shadowhunters are pushed to the very brink of
destruction in the breathtaking conclusion to the Infernal Devices
trilogy.

11 November, 2015

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Breaking the Spine. Today we are waiting for The Girl From Everywhere by Heidi Heilig!

This will be the debut novel by Heidi Heilig and judging from all the ARC reviews I've read the book seems to be an amazing one! If you're interested in reading these reviews you can find one by Brittany, another one by Lauren and Megan and the last one I've read by Jennifer. All these reviews make me more excited about this book!

SYNOPSIS: The capital-A Automatons of Greco-Roman myth aren’t clockwork. Their design is much more divine. They’re more intricate than robots or androids or anything else mortal humans could invent. Their windup keys are their human Masters. They aren’t mindless; they have infinite storage space. And, because they have more than one form, they’re more versatile and portable than, say, your cell phone—and much more useful too. The only thing these god-forged beings share in common with those lowercase-A automatons is their pre-programmed existence. They have a function—a function their creator put into place—a function that was questionable from the start…
Odys (no, not short for Odysseus, thank you) finds his hermetic lifestyle falling apart after a stranger commits suicide to free his soul-attached Automaton slave. The humanoid Automaton uses Odys’s soul to “reactivate” herself. Odys must learn to accept that the female Automaton is an extension of his body—that they are the same person—and that her creator-god is forging a new purpose for all with Automatons…

The novel calls itself a “Prose Epic,” but is otherwise a purposeful implosion of literary clichés and gimmicks: A Narrator and an Editor (named Gabbler) frame the novel. Gabbler’s pompous commentary (as footnotes) on the nameless Narrator’s story grounds the novel in reality. Gabbler is a stereotypical academic who likes the story only for its so-called “literary” qualities, but otherwise contradicts the Narrator’s claim that the story is true.

THE AUTOMATION is a this-world fantasy that reboots mythical characters and alchemical concepts. Its ideal place would be on the same bookshelf as Wilson’s ALIF THE UNSEEN and Gaiman’s AMERICAN GODS—though it wouldn’t mind bookending Homer, Virgil, and Milton, to be specific.

SYNOPSIS: FIRSTLY: don’t touch the hands of your cuckoo-clock heart. SECONDLY: master your anger. THIRDLY: never, ever fall in love. For if you do, the hour hand will poke through your skin, your bones will shatter, and your heart will break once more.

Edinburgh, 1874. Born with a frozen heart, Jack is near death when his mother abandons him to the care of Dr. Madeleine—witch doctor, midwife, protector of orphans—who saves Jack by placing a cuckoo clock in his chest. And it is in her orphanage that Jack grows up among tear-filled flasks, eggs containing memories, and a man with a musical spine.

As Jack gets older, Dr. Madeleine warns him that his heart is too fragile for strong emotions: he must never, ever fall in love. And, of course, this is exactly what he does: on his tenth birthday and with head-over-heels abandon. The object of his ardor is Miss Acacia—a bespectacled young street performer with a soul-stirring voice. But now Jack’s life is doubly at risk—his heart is in danger and so is his safety after he injures the school bully in a fight for the affections of the beautiful singer.

Now begins a journey of escape and pursuit, from Edinburgh to Paris to Miss Acacia’s home in Andalusia. Mathias Malzieu’s The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart is a fantastical, wildly inventive tale of love and heartbreak—by turns poignant and funny—in which Jack finally learns the great joys, and ultimately the greater costs, of owning a fully formed heart.

SYNOPSIS: September 3, 1940. Ten peculiar children flee an army of deadly monsters. And only one person can help them—but she’s trapped in the body of a bird.

The extraordinary journey that began in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children continues as Jacob Portman and his newfound friends journey to London, the peculiar capital of the world. There, they hope to find a cure for their beloved headmistress, Miss Peregrine. But in this war-torn city, hideous surprises lurk around every corner. And before Jacob can deliver the peculiar children to safety, he must make an important decision about his love for Emma Bloom. Like its predecessor, this second novel in the Peculiar Children series blends thrilling fantasy with vintage photography to create a one-of-a-kind reading experience.

SYNOPSIS:In the magical underworld
of Victorian London, Tessa Gray has at last found safety with the
Shadowhunters. But that safety proves fleeting when rogue forces in the
Clave plot to see her protector, Charlotte, replaced as head of the
Institute. If Charlotte loses her position, Tessa will be out on the
street—and easy prey for the mysterious Magister, who wants to use
Tessa’s powers for his own dark ends.

With the help of the
handsome, self-destructive Will and the fiercely devoted Jem, Tessa
discovers that the Magister’s war on the Shadowhunters is deeply
personal. He blames them for a long-ago tragedy that shattered his life.
To unravel the secrets of the past, the trio journeys from
mist-shrouded Yorkshire to a manor house that holds untold horrors, from
the slums of London to an enchanted ballroom where Tessa discovers that
the truth of her parentage is more sinister than she had imagined. When
they encounter a clockwork demon bearing a warning for Will, they
realize that the Magister himself knows their every move—and that one of
their own has betrayed them.

Tessa finds her heart drawn more
and more to Jem, but her longing for Will, despite his dark moods,
continues to unsettle her. But something is changing in Will—the wall he
has built around himself is crumbling. Could finding the Magister free
Will from his secrets and give Tessa the answers about who she is and
what she was born to do?

As their dangerous search for the
Magister and the truth leads the friends into peril, Tessa learns that
when love and lies are mixed, they can corrupt even the purest heart.

04 November, 2015

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Breaking the Spine. Today we are waiting for The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater! (I used to have such trouble spelling it and know it's so familiar that it just comes automatically xD)

This will be the fourth and last book of The Raven Cycle series. All comes to an end. For people who follow Maggie on Twitter or Tumblr you probably already saw quite a few spoilers she posted herself but please don't mention them since the rest would probably get mad about it.

Publication date: 26th April, 2016

Publisher: Scholastic Press

03 November, 2015

Yes! Finally we also climbed out of out cave and joined facebook to make it easier for you! Now you do not need to check blogloving or type our webpage over and over again just to make sure you have not missed anything! Nope, that difficult time is no more! Starting today you will be able to follow all we share with you on facebook without missing a single thing! No more complicated typing, no more scrolling blogloving! Just with one click our new posts will appear in your facebook feed!

So the Halloween is over. Yeah, depressing. And the days are getting colder. And the leaves are completely falling, I swear when I am driving it looks like it is snowing leaves. Plus the annoying mist, I could not see beyond my arm yesterday night, not even mist lights were helping. The off side of living in the mountains. I officially announce, it is time for hot chocolate, warm winter slippers and perfect books!

What are you guys reading this month?

02 November, 2015

Noooooo! Halloween cannot be over! I refuse to accept it! But my Jo leBoo by the door is getting all dry and you can see him dying, so sad! I want Halloween again! It was so cool, watched all the movies I wanted, got ODed on candy :D And my boyfriend made me a pumpkin exactly like I wanted it! Out Jo leBoo is just perfect!
I also tried to read something scary or halloweenish this year but did not work out that well. I managed to read four books from my October TBR list and then I read three additional books! I guess The Infernal Devices just gonna have to move to November TBR list! But I am currently reading Clockwork Prince so whoop whoop!

SYNOPSIS: A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of curious photographs.
A horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow—impossible though it seems—they may still be alive.

A spine-tingling fantasy illustrated with haunting vintage photography,Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children will delight adults, teens, and anyone who relishes an adventure in the shadows.

PLOT SUMMARY:Everybody knows Cate
Cahill and her sisters are eccentric. Too pretty, too reclusive, and far
too educated for their own good. But the truth is even worse: they’re
witches. And if their secret is discovered by the priests of the
Brotherhood, it would mean an asylum, a prison ship—or an early grave.

Before
her mother died, Cate promised to protect her sisters. But with only
six months left to choose between marriage and the Sisterhood, she might
not be able to keep her word... especially after she finds her mother’s
diary, uncovering a secret that could spell her family’s destruction.
Desperate to find alternatives to their fate, Cate starts scouring
banned books and questioning rebellious new friends, all while juggling
tea parties, shocking marriage proposals, and a forbidden romance with
the completely unsuitable Finn Belastra.

If what her mother wrote
is true, the Cahill girls aren’t safe. Not from the Brotherhood, the
Sisterhood—not even from each other.

Halloween! How did everyone do? Did you get lots of candy? What did you dress up like this year? I should've picked more "scary" books to go with the theme but I am dying to read An Ember in the Ashes (shown in Spanish), the second book of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children series because it's part of the Series Enders and I enjoyed the first one, The Automation which is a book requested for us to read and I will happily do so + review it of course, and I will finish off with The Knife of Never Letting Go because I have read amazing reviews! Did any of you read these books? Let me know what you think!

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